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1、 1 词义猜测 A 2014 安徽蚌埠第三次质检 No one gets through life without experiencing many disappointments Strangely though most people seem unprepared for disappointment and react to it in negative ways They feel depressed or try to escape from their troubles instead of using disappointment as an opportunity for
2、growth One negative reaction to disappointment is depression A woman trying to win a promotion for example works hard for over a year in her department Helen is so sure she will get the promotion However the bos s names one of Helen s co workers for the spot Deeply depressed Helen loses her enthusia
3、sm for her job and can barely force herself to show up every day Helen tells herself that she is a failure and that doing a good job just isn t worth the work Another negative reaction to disappointment is the desire to escape Kevin fails to get into the college his brother is attending the college
4、that was the focus of all his dreams and decides to escape his disappointment Why worry about college at all Instead he covers up his real feelings by giving up on his school work and getting completely involved with friends parties and good times The positive way to react to disappointment is to us
5、e it as a chance for growth This isn t easy but it s the only useful way to deal with an inevitable part of life Helen the woman who was not promoted could have handled her disappointment by looking at other options If her boss did not recognize her talent and hard work perhaps she could transfer to
6、 another department Or she could ask the boss how to improve her performance so that she could prepare for the next promotion Kevin the boy who didn t get into the college of his choice should look into other schools Going to another college may encourage him to be his own person step out of his bro
7、ther s shadow and realize that being turned down by one college isn t a final judgment on his abilities or potential Disappointments are unwelcome but regular visitors to everyone s life We can feel depressed about them or we can try to escape from them The best thing though is to accept a disappoin
8、tment and then try to use it somehow Step over the unwelcome visitor on the doorstep and get on with life 1 In this passage the author A analyzes the cause of disappointment B describes his personal experience in dealing with disappointment C criticizes Helen and Kevin s negative responses to disapp
9、ointment D offers specific examples of the ways people deal with disappointment 2 From the context the word options Para 4 means A waysB choices C places D jobs 3 In the author s opinion Helen should instead of feeling depressed A work even harder to get better than her promoted co worker B stand th
10、e pressure and competition C win a good opinion from the boss by seeking his advice D move into another department to have her talent and hard work appreciated 4 Which of the following best expresses the main idea of this selection A Disappointment is an inevitable 不可避免的 part of life and we have to
11、handle it in a positive way 2 B Life is made up of a series of disappointments We have to accept them C There are two kinds of reactions to disappointment D Most people react to disappointment in negative ways B 2014 石家庄质检二 Sir John a British scientist who won last year s Nobel Prize for Medicine sa
12、id he had predicted at the time of his frog experiments that the successful cloning of a mammal would happen within 50 years and that maybe the same answer is appropriate for the step to human cloning Parents who lose children in accidents may be able to clone copies to replace them then Although an
13、y attempt to clone an entire human would raise complex moral issues the biologist claimed people would soon overcome their concerns if the technique became medically useful Cloning was regarded with extreme doubts when it was first developed but became widely accepted after the birth of Louise Brown
14、 the first test tube baby He said When my first frog experiment was done an American reporter asked how long it will be before these things can be done in mammals or humans I said Well it could be anywhere between 10 years and 100 years how about 50 years It turned out that it wasn t far off the mar
15、k as far as Dolly was concerned Maybe the same answer is appropriate Sir John added that cloning a human being effectively means making an identical twin and doctors would therefore simply be copying what nature has already produced The average vote on allowing parents of deceased children who are n
16、o longer fertile 能生育的 to create another using the mother s eggs and skin cells from the first child thinking the technique was safe and effective is 60 percent in favor The reasons for no are usually that the new child would feel they were some sort of a replacement for something 1 Sir John predicted the human cloning would be a reality in at most A 100 yearsB 60 years C 50 years D 10 years 2 According to the text which statement is NOT true A Louise Brown is the first test tube baby B Human clo
